The MiJJouri is, in facl, the principal river, contributing more to the common ftream than does the Miffifipi, even after its jundion with the Illinois. It is re- markably cold, muddy and rapid. Its overflowings are confiderable. They happen during the months of June and July. Their commencement being fo much later than thofe of the Miffifipi, would induce a belief than the fources of thjg MifTouri, are northward of thofe of the Miffifipi, unlefs we fuppofe that the cold increafes again with the afcent of the land from the Miffifipi weftwardly. That this afcent is great, is proved by the rapi- dity of the river. Six miles above the mouth it is brought within the compafs of a quarter of a mile's width: yet the Spanifh merchants at Pancore, or St.
Louis, fay they go two thoufand miles up it. It heads far weft ward of the Rio Norte, or North River. There is, in the villages of Kafkafkia, Cohoes and St.
Vincennes, no inconfiderable quantity of plate, faid to have been plundered during the laft war by the Indians from the churches and private houfes of Santa Fe, on the North river, and brought to the [ H ] villages for fale. From the mouth of Ohio to Santa Fe are forty days journey,